Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is a seed shut up in the pod, and art without practice is nothing.

Whether you are aware of it or not, your life is still disappearing. It’s pouring out, it keeps diminishing.

So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.

Keep cool. Anger is not an argument.

Poetry is –raw feelings as sunny summer, fiery turmoil as vibrant autumn, daunting revelation as stormy winter, intrepid hope as blooming spring.

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

We think-although of course, now, we very seldom Clearly think- That the other side of War is Peace.

Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.

He who never makes a mistake never makes anything. It's part of learning the job.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.